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Real Estate Disclosure – Your new best friend! Written by Bill Barksdale
When you purchase a home and other real property in California you will get a thick stack of paperwork that your agent will go over with you. I’m not talking about the purchase ag...

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Curb Appeal - What’s That? Written by Bill Barksdale
Dear Seller, there are many things you will want to do to get the best return on your real estate investment when you sell it. One of them is to create “curb appeal”. Curb appeal is about emotion. When a...

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The School - Real Estate Values Connection Written by Bill Barksdale
It’s an interesting, yet logical, phenomenon that a strong local school system increases and supports stronger real estate values. Many home buyers ask their agent about the quality of the local sch...

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Considering a Short Sale? – (Very) Basic Primer
Written by Bill Barksdale
Short Sale and Foreclosure in real estate is such a large and still developing area of real estate practice that this article can only just touch on it. My intent is to provide some basi...

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What Creates Value in Real Estate & Community? Written by Bill Barksdale
We’ve all heard the old phrases like “location, location, location” “blighted area” and “great place to live”. They describe and hint at the things we value – particularly what we value in home an...

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Pest Inspections & Dead Trees
Written by Bill Barksdale
I wrote an article a few years ago for The Willits News about the importance of periodic pest inspections, but it’s a message that bears repeating. Often, the largest expense a seller has is to repair damage caused to their house by w...

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Reverse Mortgages
Written by Bill Barksdale
Check with your financial advisor, but I’ve been told that the IRS does not consider loan advances as income, therefore, not taxable.
How much do I get? Well, that is determined by how much equity you have in your home, your age (the older the borro...

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Brooktrails Water Hookups Available Again Written by Bill Barksdale
I recently spoke with Mike Chapman, Manager of the Brooktrails Township Communities Services District, regarding the availability of water/sewer hook ups to develop Brooktrails lots. Mike has always been very generous...

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Credit Scores – What It Means To You Written by Bill Barksdale
When you apply for a loan to purchase real estate, your lender will run a credit check on you. One of the things they will want to know is your Credit Score. Sometimes you’ll hear the term “FICO” score. A FICO® score is...

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Buying a house in this “Buyer’s Market” Written by Bill Barksdale
As I’ve said before, a Buyer’s Market is the opportunity prepared buyers have been waiting for! Listening to the corporate media blitz of bad news you might think no one is, or can, buy a house right now. The tr...

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The Home Seller’s Mindset Written by Bill Barksdale
Pricing is everything in an adjusting market.
Here is the simple formula. Choose an agent with a strong Marketing Plan. Don’t put your house on the market until you are sure you want to sell. Be...

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Protecting Your Home From WildfireNew Products for the Home Owner Written by Bill Barksdale
On June 30th I went to a very interesting demonstration at the Laytonville Fire Department that Willits Fire Chief, Jeff Smith, told me about. The demonstration was of a product...

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Insurance and Disasters Written by Bill Barksdale
As fire and hurricane (thank goodness we don’t have those) season arrive, it’s time to look at your insurance and what it will require of you to get coverage and collect if you need to. In a conversation with one insurance broker, I wa...

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Sellers – Being Competitive In A Buyer’s Market Written by Bill Barksdale
As I mentioned in a recent article, there are really two real estate markets happening right now. One is the normal market where you put your house up for sale. The other is the “dist...

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Loan Modification - Help for Home Owners Written by Bill Barksdale
It’s not news to anyone that we are in challenging times. We all know that government has failed to provide responsible leadership when it comes to the economy and oversight of financial and other large corporate operati...

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Class K - The Alternative Building Code Written by Bill Barksdale
I spent a very interesting hour with Countys Chief Building Inspector, Chris Warrick, recently. I wanted to find out as much as I could about County s often cited, but little understood alternative to i...

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